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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bridget Benson; Bryan Mealy

kickstarter project was recently Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 184proposed describing efforts to create an open source hardware based digital design course4 buthas yet to be developed.History and OverviewThe notion of porting a digital design course currently taught in a flipped classroom format to anonline format follows an ongoing evolution in the mode of instruction for digital design coursesat the authors’ institution. The first major change in digital course formats was switching from

Conference Session

Statics & Strength of Materials - A nice couple

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Aidsa Ivette Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Genock Portela-Gauthier, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Arturo Ponce, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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Mechanics

projects. The average gradeson the projects are less varied by discipline, possibly due to the fact that the projects werecompleted in groups of 3-4 in which disciplines were mixed. However, a number of importanttrends were observed, including:  many students (at least 50%) resisted using the spreadsheet and used in minimally; we were surprised by the number of students who chose to do a number of “side calculations” manually and then enter these numbers into the spreadsheet, rather than performing them directly in the spreadsheet; students who did this were at a general disadvantage to answer some of the more conceptual questions that required a variation in parameters to illustrate trends in behavior.  a

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CIP Division Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC; Geoffrey L Price, University of Tulsa; Geoffrey D. Silcox, University of Utah; Michael Newton, University of Utah, Chemical Engineering Department; Terry L Phipps

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College Industry Partnerships

Society and has received many departmental, college, and university scholarships. He worked with Dr. Jost O.L. Wendt of Utah for two years as a research assistant in the oxy-coal combustion group as part of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy, helping three doctoral students’ research efforts. His work was presented at the 2nd International Oxyfuel Combustion Conference in Yeppoon, Australia in September 2011. Additionally, Newton spent a summer taking part in the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates working as a student research associate for Oscilla Power, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah. His project with Oscilla Power, Inc. entailed a preliminary design and investigation into the

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Laboratory Experiences in Electronics and Circuits

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Avik Dayal, Virginia Tech; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; A. A. (Louis) Beex, Virginia Tech

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

staff have developed experiments that have moved from a ‘cookbook’ approach toone in which students are presented several open-ended design projects during the semester. Themotivation to alter the pedagogical approach used in the labs was to attract and retain students inthe BSEE program by increasing student self-confidence, providing opportunities to instill self-reliance, developing deeper understanding of fundamental concepts through visually Page 23.290.2demonstrations, and supporting students as they strive to achieve technical goals. Other desiredoutcomes for all students, identified as the project evolved, were to develop better

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Research Initiatives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Malinda Faber, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation; Jeni Corn, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, NC State University; Tracey Louise Collins, North Carolina State University; Alana Unfried, North Carolina State University; LaTricia Townsend

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

for Educational Innovation at NC State University, Dr. Corn serves as PI of several large, statewide evaluation and research studies of innovations in K-12 schools and districts, including leading the evaluation of initiatives funded under North Carolina’s Race to the Top grant. Her research interests focus on leadership, professional development, teaching and learning, infrastructure, and evaluation for technology-enhanced innovations in public school settings.Mrs. Tracey Louise Collins, North Carolina State University Tracey Louise Collins is the Project Coordinator for the MISO Project. Responsibilities include imple- menting activities of the project, coordinating efforts among K-12 science, technology, engineering

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INT. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Partnerships, and Implementations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Ruth Rodríguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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International

Beichner from NorthCarolina State University in the SCALE-UP project3. Like the ACE classroom, there are manyother similar classrooms located in the United States and throughout the world. In general, theseclassrooms all share the basic elements proposed in the SCALE-UP project, differing only in thenumber of tables (due to room size) and the technology they have. Due to their characteristics,such rooms are ideal for teaching sciences such as physics, mathematics, chemistry and biology.However, we have found that other areas such as language or literature also reap the benefits ofthe setup and overall environment that is created in these classrooms4.For several years, Beichner conducted research and experimented with on different classroomsdesigns

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The D/M/A of CE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

on theexperience of leading the learning experience with students, and analyze the deliverablesprepared by students during the learning episode. The goal of this paper is to open a conversationwith other engineering educators using service-learning pedagogies about how to preparestudents to make the most of site visits to community partners.The StudentsI intentionally designed this learning experience for students enrolled in a service-learningprogram at a major university in the Midwest. Students participate in multidisciplinary designteams that have long-term commitments to working with specific community partners. Eachteam organizes itself so as to give students project leadership experience. Typical leadershiproles include team leader

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Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Megan Elizabeth Sharp, IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology; Alison L. Stevenson, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Student and Curriculum Development

Solutions CurriculumAs the world’s less developed nations join the development race, demand will be high forengineers trained in a range of development projects. Engineers will be needed to install waterdelivery and sanitation systems, roads, bridges, dams, utility infrastructure and much more. Thescale of such projects will range from serving rural communities of a few hundred people torapidly-growing urban centers of several million people. The success of these projects willdepend not only on the soundness of the structures built, but on the soundness of the engineer’srelationship with the community and his understanding of its culture, governance, and inherentsystems. These disciplines, however, are rarely included in today’s engineering

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Design Methodology and Evaluation 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 (A Foreign Language not so Foreign) The Design of Language for Engineering Education: Recycling IM and Text Messaging to Capture Engineering ProcessesAbstractIn an ideal world, teachers would be able to track the rationale of individual students or studentgroups and communicate with students continuously rather than at the end of a project or atmilestones. Current design rationale tools tested in industry show that engineers (and students)have to break their momentum to stop and record ideas or document, so those tools are not aseffective as they could be. A

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It's Elementary

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Christine Mendoza

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

board of Learning and Instruction and Teachers College Record. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presiden- tial Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants in both the public and private sectors, and served as an external reviewer for doctoral dissertations outside the U.S. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals and books, and has held both elected and appointed offices in the American Psy- chological Association (APA). Dr. Husman was a founding member and first President of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa A Dagley, University of Central Florida; Nirmala Ramlakhan, Nee-Moh, Inc; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida

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Women in Engineering

students who participated in the mentoring program andremained engaged in the intervention over a two-year period had significantly higher grades thanthose students who received no active intervention (non-mentored students)17.BackgroundThe National Science Foundation funded a STEP project at the University of Central Florida(UCF) titled “UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence”. The NSF STEPprogram seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents)receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The STEP project at UCF, called theEXCEL program, was a 5-year program funded in 2006 which has since been

Conference Session

Accreditation, Program Evaluation, and Education Resource's Impact in Latin America

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erick Jones, University of Texas, Arlington; Vettrivel Gnaneswaran, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Beatriz Murrieta, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Queretaro

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International

differentfrom his/her home country will not be same as that of the students working in their homecountry. This transcript describes how an NSF funded international research experiences inMexico impacted the Industrial Engineering (IE) students who participated in this project. Thestudents worked with companies that had operations in Queretaro, Mexico, over the summer,including several multi- national firms. The students were required to take Spanish, a researchmethods course at Monterrey Tech, Queretaro, and perform research as part of their program.The impacts of learning, communicating and presenting final results in Spanish are evaluated. This research describes the results two cohorts of students and their experiences over the lastcouple of

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Integrating Curriculum and Labs in Engineering Technology Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Adriana Becker-Gomez, Rochester Institute of Technology (KGCOE); Joe Bungo, ARM Inc.

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Engineering Technology

Research and Development Engineer and Project Leader for the Automotive Industry in the area of Embedded and Software Systems. She also worked as an Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate Studies of Engineering Division at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico in 1995 .In 2000 she was a grader at Texas A&M University. In 2001 she interned in the Preamp R&D SP Group at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, and at Intersil Corporation, Dallas / Milpitas, as a Design Engineer, in the High Performance Analog Group in 2005. She worked at Intersil as a Senior Design Engineer in the Analog and Mixed Signal-Data Converters Group. In 2009 she joined Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York as an adjunct

Conference Session

FPD 5: Transitions and Student Success, Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Timothy J Hinds, Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University; Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

academic and co-curricular activities. By design, the group collaborates closely toensure that timelines of academic and co-curricular activities are aligned and reinforce andcomplement each other. Page 23.262.3The academic director has the following principal responsibilities: ● develops the curriculum for the academic program ● coordinates instruction for the academic courses ● manages the teaching assistants and undergraduate mentors required to operate the courses ● establishes interdisciplinary connections and initiatives that provide broad opportunities for course projects ● maintains the quality and safety of the

Conference Session

The Civil Engineering Technologist and the Civil Engineer – What’s the Difference?

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe D Manous Jr P.E., Institute for Water Resources, USACE; Jon D Nelson, Tetra Tech, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

Services group of Tetra Tech, Inc. in Tulsa, Okla. He has 39 years of engineering experience with most of his career focusing on municipal water and waste water projects. He has been with Tetra Tech for 28 years. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Kansas State University and a M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State University. Nelson is licensed as a professional engineer in four states and holds Class A operator licenses in Oklahoma for water works and waste water works. Nelson served on the Oklahoma State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors for twelve years and was board chair for two years. He served as president of the National Council of Examiners for

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A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a National Science Foun- dation CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios for graduate students to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering.Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech Wende Garrison got her bachelor’s and master’s from Portland State University in Film & Television and Rhetoric &

Conference Session

FPD 5: Transitions and Student Success, Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University; Laura Darrah, Residence Life, Western Michigan University; Paul V. Engelmann, Western Michigan University; Cynthia Halderson, Western Michigan University; Bryan W. Thumme, Western Michigan University; Anetra Grice, Western Michigan University

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First-Year Programs

that while there is no statistically-significant difference in individualcourse performance between EH and non-EH students, first-year as well as all engineering andapplied sciences students living in EH have a statistically-significant higher fall term GPA thannon-EH students. Mandatory Math Tutoring appears to have a greater impact in Pre-Calculusthan Calculus I, leading the project team to expand this research pilot to include Algebra II in fallsemester 2012. One outcome of the Early Alert for At-Risk Student is a new data-reporting toolfrom the Office of Institutional Research that is user-friendly and allows the project team to runone report instead of multiple reports to identify all the potential at-risk students and theirdifficulties

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Outreach Along the K-12 Pathways to Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liesl Hotaling, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg; Susan Lowes, Teachers College/Columbia University; Rustam Stolkin; Peiyi Lin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #6009Student-created water quality sensorsMs. Liesl Hotaling, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg Liesl Hotaling is a Senior Research Engineering with the College of Marine Sciences, University of South Florida. She holds a B.A. in Marine Science, a M.A.T. in Science Teaching, and a M.S. in Maritime Systems (ocean engineering). She is a partner in Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Networked Ocean World (COSEE-NOW) and specializes in real time data education projects and hands- on STEM educational projects supporting environmental observing networks.Dr. Susan Lowes, Teachers College/Columbia

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Incorporating Technology into Construction Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antoine Jean-Pierre Tixier, University of Colorado at Boulder; Alex Albert, University of Colorado

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Construction

to provide students with field visit opportunities and use real constructionenvironments to provide context-driven education3. He further argues that such opportunitieswould provide students with better prospects to interact with professional engineers and Page 23.1139.2managers on real construction projects that are dealing with real-life challenges. Anothersolution that is suggested in literature is to establish collaborative partnerships betweeneducational institutes and local construction companies13. Although such methods are valuable,they often are not practical because (1) instructors may not gain access to construction projectson a

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Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #8104The Comprehension ChallengeDr. Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor of Aerospace Engineering. Former chair, Aerospace Division of ASEE. Over 300 papers (120+ refereed), 3 Patents, 15 PhDs and over 160 undergrads guided in research. Team leader, EXROVERT project on learning to innovate on complex systems. Page 23.1174.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Comprehension ChallengeAbstractThe need for increased

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iSTEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc.; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering; Susan E. Burger, David Heil & Associates, Inc.

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and university clients. Heil is a co-author of Family Engineering: An Activity and Event Planning Guide, and serves as a member-at-large on the Executive Committee of ASEE’s K-12 Division.Mr. Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a senior program officer with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washing- ton, D.C. Pearson currently serves as the responsible staff officer for the public and private-sector funded study ”Integrated STEM Education: Developing a Research Agenda.” He is also study director for the NSF-funded project ”Changing the Conversation: From Research to Action” and the project ”Changing the Conversation: Building the Community,” supported by the United engineering

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Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Scott Grenquist, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Roger G. Hadgraft, RMIT University

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ASEE International Forum

Paper ID #8241Are Australian and American Engineering Education Programs the Same?The Similarities and Differences between Australian and American Engineer-ing Accreditation ProceduresDr. Scott Grenquist, Wentworth Institute of Technology Scott Grenquist is currently performing Sabbatical Research in interdisciplinary, project-based-learning techniques at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and The University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is also concurrently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Scott received his doctorate

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Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Laplace transforms,feedback control, data acquisition and signal processing. More enlightened courses Page 23.1237.2include labs or long-term projects that challenge students to connect theory to design(Tranquillo, 2007). But one way to create a T-shaped course is to challenge engineers toapply their skills outside of traditional boundaries. With that goal, I challenged myBMEG 350 (junior-level biomedical engineering) students to design and build non-traditional musical instruments.Each student team designed and constructed an instrument that would record biologicalsignals and then transform those signals to Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI

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K-5 Teacher Transformation

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teacher educator, she has added engineering to her elementary and early childhood science methods courses, and developed a Teaching Engineering Design course for middle school pre-service teachers in a science track. Since 2008, she has partnered with Harford County Public Schools in Maryland on the SySTEmic Project, a district-wide project to implement elementary engineering instruction using EiE units of instruction. More recently, she has provided science and engineering professional development to Tunbridge Public Charter School, Baltimore City, and to Cecil County Public Schools, Maryland. Her research largely examines factors that support and those that hinder elementary teachers as they learn to teach

Conference Session

Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Joshua M Frey, Elizabethtown College

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Women in Engineering

introduced an extrinsic performance goal that enhancedthe undergraduates’ motivation, but left us able to answer our research question: what are thesimilarities and differences between women and men undergraduates in their intrinsic motivationto perform K12 outreach?MethodsOutreach Project Our study focused on an outreach activity performed in one mid-level course (Strength ofMaterials) within the ABET-accredited general engineering curriculum at a small (less than2,000) private regional liberal arts college. The course had an enrollment of 22 students spanning10 sophomores (45%), 11 juniors (50%), and 1 senior (5%), including 16 men and 6 women(27%). To expose undergraduates to outreach, all undergraduates enrolled in the Strength

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RET Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zornitsa Georgieva, West Virginia University; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University; Tyler A Saenz Saenz, West Virginia University; Miracle David Solley, West Virginia University; Darran Cairns, West Virginia University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Impact of Research Experience for Teachers with International and Societally Relevant ComponentsIntroductionWe sought to bridge the divide for teachers and their students between secondary science andmathematics content, on one hand, and the engineering of solutions to real-world societally-relevant problems, on the other hand. The expected outcomes for the Research Experience forTeachers: Energy and the Environment project* (RET) included: 1. Teacher knowledge and attitudes toward science and engineering will improve as a result of participating in ongoing engineering research projects for six weeks during the summer and

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Activities and Assessment for “Awkward ABET Outcomes”

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Douglas H. Fehrmann, The Krause Center for Leadership and Ethics, The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

Department program outcomes is measuredusing embedded indicators with the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy 12,13 summarized as: 1.)Knowledge, 2.) Comprehension, 3.) Application, 4.) Analysis, 5.) Synthesis and 6.) Evaluation. Page 23.393.6Table 1 summarizes the 22 CEE Department program outcomes adopted for the CivilEngineering program and identifies the ten outcomes that are being used to assess leadershipdevelopment. Course embedded indicators on tests, assignments, and projects are usedsystematically to evaluate each of the 22 CEE Department program outcomes. Multiple meansof assessing each CEE Department program outcome are deployed and include

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Turton P.E., West Virginia University

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Chemical Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A new motivation and perspective on teaching simulation and design: The development of a dynamic process model in conjunction with an operator training simulator (OTS)IntroductionDuring the past five years, the author was involved, as part of a team of researchers anddevelopers, in building an Operator Training Simulator (OTS) for an Integrated GasificationCombined Cycle (IGCC) power plant. In a companion project, a 3-D fully Immersive TrainingSystem (ITS) was developed for the same IGCC power plant OTS. During this process, theeducational potential of both the OTS and ITS became evident and provides the motivation forthis paper.Traditional process/plant

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University; Sofía Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University; Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University

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Instrumentation

a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Vice-President and Treasurer of the Society of Engineering at TAMIU. In addition, Sof´ıa was a Research Assistant for the project ”Topography of an Object: Detection and Display (Software and Hardware)” and was team leader of the Engineering Senior Project Design entitled ”New Classroom Propulsion Demonstrator.”Dr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University Dr. Fernando Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Math and Physics Department at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. He is currently involved in implementing a new undergraduate Systems Engineering degree program which includes selecting the curriculum

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

NationalScience Foundation) have been widely reported (e.g., Refs. 7, 8).Several of the studies have involved bringing research activities directly into the curriculum(e.g., Refs. 9, 10, 11, 12). Most of these investigations appear to keep research as the focal pointof the experience for the students. Sanford-Bernhardt and Roth reported multiple options foradministratively promoting research activities for students. 9 Others have reported research-oriented capstone project experiences (e.g., Ref. 10). A lesser amount of research experiences forconventional lecture and/or laboratory courses has been reported (e.g., Refs. 11, 12), especiallyin civil engineering. When incorporated, students have reacted favorably to having curricularcontent that is not